If you think the purveyors of DEI are about to roll over and die, think again.

“When a man is killed in the films, he folds up decorously and has the decency to die quietly. In real life, it’s different.” So observes author Desmond Bagley in his career-best thriller, Flyaway, when one fatally wounded villain screams interminably until a grim-faced protagonist trigger-pulls the coup de grâce — a rifle muzzle to the temple. Then there is silence.